cabin

[kab-in] /ˈkæb ɪn/
noun
1.
a small house or cottage, usually of simple design and construction:
He was born in a cabin built of rough logs.
2.
an enclosed space for more or less temporary occupancy, as the living quarters in a trailer or the passenger space in a cable car.
3.
the enclosed space for the pilot, cargo, or especially passengers in an air or space vehicle.
4.
an apartment or room in a ship, as for passengers.
5.
cabin class.
6.
(in a naval vessel) living accommodations for officers.
adverb
7.
in cabin-class accommodations or by cabin-class conveyance:
to travel cabin.
verb (used without object)
8.
to live in a cabin:
They cabin in the woods on holidays.
verb (used with object)
9.
to confine; enclose tightly; cramp.
Origin
1325-75; Middle English cabane < Middle French < Old Provençal cabana < Late Latin capanna (Isidore of Seville), of uncertain, perhaps pre-Latin orig.; spelling with i perhaps by influence of French cabine (see cabinet)
Related forms
uncabined, adjective
Synonyms
1. cot, shanty, shack, cottage. 6. quarters, compartment.
Examples from the web for cabin
  • We live in a log cabin, and these roaches are everywhere.
  • It happened while she was sleeping in a cabin thing.
  • Your cabin is not yet flooded--you have not been laid off.
  • Perhaps for you it's a literal cabin in the woods, perhaps it's a carrel in the library.
  • The whole camp was collected before a rude cabin on the outer edge of the clearing.
  • In the rear is the cabin, its misty windows glowing wanly with the light of a lamp inside.
  • Perhaps it's the casual chumminess of the cabin crew.
  • BA's cabin crew need to wake-up and realise how well paid they are vis-a-vias other cabin crew and how replaceable they are.
  • You're more than welcome to go live in a little cabin in the woods, grow all your own food, and walk everywhere if you so desire.
  • In fact they got so drunk that they ended up having to be restrained by cabin crew and placed in plastic handcuffs.
British Dictionary definitions for cabin

cabin

/ˈkæbɪn/
noun
1.
a small simple dwelling; hut
2.
a simple house providing accommodation for travellers or holiday-makers at a motel or holiday camp
3.
a room used as an office or living quarters in a ship
4.
a covered compartment used for shelter or living quarters in a small boat
5.
(in a warship) the compartment or room reserved for the commanding officer
6.
(Brit) another name for signal box
7.
  1. the enclosed part of a light aircraft in which the pilot and passengers sit
  2. the part of an airliner in which the passengers are carried
  3. the section of an aircraft used for cargo
verb
8.
to confine in a small space
Word Origin
C14: from Old French cabane, from Old Provençal cabana, from Late Latin capanna hut
Word Origin and History for cabin
n.

mid-14c., from Old French cabane "hut, cabin," from Old Provençal cabana, from Late Latin capanna "hut" (source of Spanish cabana, Italian capanna), of doubtful origin. French cabine (18c.), Italian cabino are English loan-words. Meaning "room or partition of a vessel" is from late 14c. Cabin fever first recorded by 1918 in the "need to get out and about" sense; earlier (1820s) it was a term for typhus.